Accurate File Dates for Kiefer's Archives
Behold, actual data from this webserver:
{
...,
"Duelist Planning.md": {
"4016": {
"secs": 1700543404.2835577,
"text": "Mon Nov 20 23:10:04 2023"
}
},
"Dynamic Colour Ideas.md": {
"2585": {
"secs": 1634448937.3715992,
"text": "Sun Oct 17 00:35:37 2021"
}
},
"E": {
"4096": {
"secs": 1670885082.0,
"text": "Mon Dec 12 16:44:42 2022"
}
},
...
}
I have a lot of files (what?) and I like to know how old things are.
It's personally important to me that I keep archives, as I've been making things since I was little and have moved and duplicated stuff from machine to machine over the years.
There's two ways I do this. One is to index earliest files ages found by file name, which is what I do for my notes and articles, as those rarely change file names (and a renamed version is generally renamed for a reason, ie. it's distinct enough to warrant renaming).
For non-text file types or for larger and older archives where there are more cases where the same file has been used in multiple places with different names, I have an open source notebook I use which you can try out for yourself!
–Kiefer